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Personal profile
Biography
I have a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex, where I also worked as an associate lecturer and tutor, until I joined DEV in July 2014. Before moving to Sussex I worked for several years as a professional researcher and consultant in academic and non-academic sectors in Portugal, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the High Commission for Migration in Lisbon. I have also worked continuously as a professional trainer in migration-related issues, in public and private non-profit organisations.
Key Research Interests
My research is mainly concerned with mobility and migration. I have worked for many years in Lusophone Africa (Guinea-Bissau and Angola), where I looked at the social and cultural aspects of food, and their integration in transnational economic life. More recently I have started researching migration in the UK, and I became interested in the use of photography, film and in arts-based methods of research more genereally. My work has involved a combined use of visual and oral narratives in the study of racism, political attitudes and social inequalities in the context of Brexit in Great Yarmouth, and I am currently involved in a ESRC-funded international research project on Coastal Transformations (https://site.uit.no/fishercoast/), where I coordinate the WP on Heritage in the East Anglian region of the UK, looking at experience, discourse and performance in people's memories of the past. I work in collaboration with the local museum sector, following a Museum-University partnership that I coordinated, funded by the Arts Council, exploring issues around migration in Norfolk through a combination of arts and research. My most recent project, "When the Dust Settles: Exploring the Lived Experience of Refugee Families after Reunion" is a British Academy Innovation Fellowship project in collaboration with Together Now - http://togethernow.org.uk/ - to explore the longer term lived experience of refugee families – one or more years after the arrival of relatives through the process of family reunion – in the UK. It uses participatory methods based on oral and audiovisual narratives.
Network
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When the Dust Settles: Exploring the Lived Experience of Refugee Families after Reunion
31/03/22 → 30/06/23
Project: Fellowship
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Coastal transformations and fisher wellbeing - synthesized perspectives from India and Europe (EQUIP)
Menon, A., Rao, N., Abranches, M., Bautes, N., Bavinck, J., Bofulin, M., Dhandapani, B., Dhandapani, S., Finstad, B., Gowrappan, M., Inamdar, A., Natesan, B., Parthasarathy, D., Paudel, K., Proisy, C., Rogelja, N., Taylor, B. & White, C.
Economic and Social Research Council
1/01/19 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Lessons of diversity in Norfolk
Theuerkauf, U., Abranches, M., Scott, C., Tebboth, M. & White, C.
Economic and Social Research Council
4/11/17 → 4/11/17
Project: Other
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Exploring historic and contemporary migration in Norfolk - Maria Abranches, MUPI
31/03/17 → 30/12/17
Project: Other
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Food Connections: Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration
Abranches, M., May 2022, Berghahn Books. 202 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Materiality, morality and masculinities in the social transformations of war in Angola
Spall, J. & Abranches, M., 1 Jun 2022, In: Men and Masculinities. 25, 2, p. 195-212 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cultural violence in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum: Manifestations of post-racial xeno-racism
Abranches, M., Theuerkauf, U., Scott, C. & White, C., 2021, In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 44, 15, p. 2876-2894 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Visual and oral narratives of place and belonging during Brexit
Abranches, M. & Theuerkauf, U., 2021, In: Visual Anthropology. 34, 5, p. 423-453 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Food Parcels in International Migration: Intimate Connections
Mata-Codesal, D. (ed.) & Abranches, M. (ed.), 2018, Palgrave Macmillan.Research output: Book/Report › Book